Sphaerolobium vimineum

Erect rush-like shrub, to c. 1 m tall; stems terete, faintly ribbed, glabrous; branchlets few, long, ascending, usually not forked at tips. Leaves, when present, linear-lanceolate, to c. 8 mm long, scattered; stipules absent. Flowers usually 2 or 3, clustered together forming long terminal racemes; peduncle to c. 0.5 mm long, produced into a subulate tip between flowers; pedicel 1–3 mm long; bracts obovate, c. 1 mm long; bracteoles obovate, 1.5–3 mm long, same colour as calyx, inserted below calyx, caducous. Calyx 3–4 mm long, darkly punctate on a green background, more or less glabrous, teeth imbricate, unequal, longer than tube, upper lip cuneate, lower lobes subulate; petals yellow with reddish markings; standard transverse-elliptic, 5–6 mm long, rich yellow with a central reddish semicircle; wings longer than keel; keel truncate, shorter than, and enclosed by, wings; style wing nearly as long as broad, less than one-quarter the length of style. Pod globose, 3–5 mm diam., turgid, long-stipitate; seeds 1–2, c. 2 mm long, sometimes mottled. Flowers Sep.–Dec.